The Iraqi artist never shied away from his reality and did not deviate from his environment, the horizons of his historical and cultural affiliation, and the elements of that environment to derive from it the elements of his art, so he was inspired by the vocabulary of that environment by employing it aesthetically according to the artist's self vision and artistic style.The contemporary Iraqi artist worked on recalling the legacy of the Mesopotamian civilization that rich legacy and the rich stock of the stock of the bids of ancient civilizations that were established on the land of Mesopotamia to generate new aesthetic values that achieve the artistic achievement Since the emergence of the first signs of the creative Rafidian artist in the art of painting and sculpture, where he began to touch the community’s need for art by simulating the picturesque nature of this land and melting in it. And the strenuous efforts made by the Iraqi artist to create an artistic culture characterized by a marriage between the cultural heritage and modern artistic thought This prompted the Iraqi artist to devise new ideas and methods and move towards modernism in the twentieth century, which witnessed the true renaissance of contemporary Iraqi plastic art, especially the art of painting, and had a great impact on revitalizing the Iraqi art movement that attracted the masses with the diversity of their cultures, inclinations and environments,The plastic art has been dominated by the feature of renewal and the marriage between heritage and contemporary. Hence, plastic art began to play a prominent role in the Iraqi cultural arena and in revealing the humanity of modern art to become a field for expressing the individual's environment, concerns and aspirations.The research problem was determined in revealing the technical and aesthetic aspects of the marsh environment and the Mesopotamian cultural heritage and its reflection in contemporary Iraqi painting according to a modernist vision ... The research adopted the descriptive and analytical approach in analyzing the research sample ... The research aims to 1-identify the aesthetic reflection of the marshes and their cultural heritage On contemporary Iraqi painting2-Study and analysis of selections from the paintings of a group of artists of the generation of pioneers of contemporary plastic art in the twentieth centuryThe limits of research were limited to paintings obtained from the Internet that depicted the beauty of the marshes environment, its symbols and its legacy of the Mesopotamian civilization, the paintings by the pioneering artists (Faiq Hassan, Hafez al-Droubi and Maud Ahmed) who contributed to the development of the plastic art movement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]